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Students commemorate Martin Luther
King Jr. with two weeks of events
By Matthi.w Parker
The Battalion
The powerful message of hope
Martin Luther King delivered with
his speeches and his presence in pub
lic life made him a figure that stu
dents at A&M look to today as the
torchbearer who lighted the way to
peace and unity for all people, re
gardless of race.
For the next two weeks, the sec
ond “Campus With a Dream’' pro
gram will celebrate King’s peace
ful teachings with his words
illuminating the cultural diversity
of the Aggie spirit.
Ravyn Miller, a senior biomed
ical science major, said she thinks
the purpose of the events is to cele
brate the hope King gave the Amer
ican people.
“The problems and the issues
African-Americans faced through
out the 1960s were horrendous com
pared to the social injustices we con
front today,” Miller said.
Miller won the “What’s the
Word” oratorical contest sponsored
by the Black Awareness Committee
(BAG). Her reward comes with
$1,000, and she is the speaker who
begins all the "Campus with a
dream events.
Miller said King’s words inspire
her and give her “hope that maybe
some things can change, in our day
and age.”
Samecia Bloomfield, executive
director of cultural programming for
the Memorial Student Center (MSC)
and a senior English major, said
King’s words of the past are still rel
evant today.
“No matter if you are black,
white, Asian, whether you practice
Islam or you are stone-cold Southern
Baptist, we all have to live and inter
act in this world. Just because you go
to church on Sunday, ahd 1 go to
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No matter if you
are black, white,
Asian, whether you
practice Islam or you
are stone-cold South
ern Baptist, we all
have to live and in
teract in this world. ”
— Samecia Bloomfield,
executive director of cultural
programming for the MSC
church on Saturday, we still are the
human race and still share the same
hopes and dreams." Bloomfield said.
Bloomfield marched with A&M’s
BAC in the Unity March. The march
will begin today at Rudder Fountain,
pass the front of Hart Hall, travel to
the statue of Sullivan Ross, and then
circle around the Academic Building
back to the MSC.
Bloomfield said the march helps
“support the ideals Dr. Martin Luther
King worked/or and others are still
striving for: one race, one culture.”
Bloomfield said one of the goals
of the program is to spread aware
ness of A&M’s multicultural student
programs.
An event scheduled for Thursday
from 7-10 p.m. is a performance of
the play A Slice of Rice, Frijoles, and
Greens produced by the Asian Cul
tures Education (ACE).
Bloomfield said she thinks the
theme of this play is the same as
that of the Campus with a Dream
program.
A 1998 Campus Climate Ex
ecutive Summary showed that the
campus and its programs need
more diversity.
The study found that 76 per
cent of the student body said that
diversity and multicultural aware
ness prograrns are valuable to stu
dents, but only 28 percent of stu
dents reported participating in
organized activities to promote
awareness about diversity.
“With everybody coming togeth
er there may be a time in your line of
work where you have to travel across
seas, so you don’t want to walk into
Iran with a short skirt and go-go-
boots,” Bloomfield said.
The 1998 summary revealed,
only 25 percent of faculty and 41
percent of undergraduates feel that
A&M students have a good under
standing of the traditions and values
of other cultures.
“I think many people around here
are ignorant and don’t even know it,”
Bloomfield said. “You have to you
just stop, look, and learn.”
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